Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-11-18

uer service, ana tney wero mum Dorcu WIN
those, that in all history, had died for tho
same cause. They believed that there wero
social conditions In this country that had
wrought great injustice TO large part of
the people, and with purity of soul and sin.
gleness of purpose they had devoted thom.
selves TO the euro OF what they thought
was great and terrible wrong ThUir
| hearts ached for the human race and they
louged to help 1t, They were kind hearted,
| tender, manly, noble mon. They loved hui
manity. They worshipped God by striving
their utmost to benefit their fellow mon,
and II was IN this strife that they offered
up their lives.
They were not standing there by tho
bodies of folons. There was nothing dis
| graceful about their death. They died for
liberty, for the sacred right of untram.
mellcd speech and for humanity, and his
hearers should be proud that they had been
their friends. In concluding the speaker
read poem writton, IL Is supposed, by
August Spies fow days before his DEATH
1t expressed his perfect willingness to die
and tho hopo that his friends would not
weep for him.
II was dark when Captain Black con.
cluded The Mannerchor sang q funeral
hymn, and then Robert Retzcl, ediior of
Der Arme Istgd (tho Poor DeyiD, OF De-
troit, stepped to tho front of the five collins.
He spoke in German. Loud was his voice
and excited was his manner. This is what
he said. ~ camo with the intention to
make a terrible accusation. Not an accu.
satlon against the horde OF church-goors,
who, in their self.rlghteousuess to-day ro-
joice in loud tone that the five mon whose
remains we consign to the dust are dead;
not against the hangman OF this county,
who is called sheriff by the brutes in human
disguise, who clamor for tho life and blood
OF the poor; not against the jury who obeycd
the mandate of the brutes, but against tho
worklngmen because they stood calmly by
when five of their best men were fculy
and brutally murdered. In the agonies of
death these five men expected that the
henious crime committed against them
would be avenged in streams of blood, and
they had a right to expect 1t. Lingg, tho
brave, the heroic, the manly, was right
when no said that preservation in these
days is crime. Here, in the presence Of
these murdered men, swear to it that you
will organize to avenge this crime, TO visit
it upon those who hate you"
"Wc swear" came tho sullen growl from
many. 1t was not possible to identify any
one in the darkness. 1--WE do afiirfl,n con-
tnued the speaker solemnly, "that we will
have blood for blood. We do not gricve
over these mon who are dead, but we do
grieve that In this country murder most
foul can bo committed under the guise of
authority and law. We grievc at ourselves
that wo did not rise in our might and pre-
vent this crime. Think of the vow you have
just made. Do not tremble. Be menl
Night is falling fast, and shall close. In
this darlening hour think of the darkness
and sorrow which society has brought over
those wo love. Let me app cal to you with
Herwegh: we have suffered long enough,
now let us hate'"
The harangue caused an irresi stible out
burst of applause. Tho inilamcd language
was the key which unloosened the pent-up
hatred. II that speech had been delivered
in the streets of the city, one simple word
of command would have suf1iced to set FREQ
an infurintod mob, whose rage would have
known no bounds.
Thomas j. Morgan the leader of the So
ciaistic labor clement, was the next |
speaker. He was brief but rancorous, and |
the whispered remarks tn IT passed around |
the throug were Indicative of the intoxica-
tion of hatred.
Albert Curtin, editor of the Arbeiier Zei- |
tung, followed Morgan. He is a dangerous |
man in inilaming the passions, and his fol- |
lowing is rapidly assuming the proportions |
which Ii nd that of the ono time editor of |
the Anarchists organ, who is now in his
grave. His speech was of the most in
character, and aroused the
passions of his hearers to the highest pitch.
Cheers, groans and cries greeted every
When he had concluded the doors of tho
receiving vault We're opened, and while the
sang farewell hymn the cof.
inns, one by one, were carried in. When
the last one had been deposited in its place
the doors were again closed and locked, |
the band played final dirge, and the cur
tain had fallen on the last act of the Hay
market drama.